Post by Dave from Pleasanton on May 28, 2022 19:25:04 GMT -5
I've been commenting for a while and thought I should post something of mine. I packed up my shop back in the fall of 2021 as part of our move. Once we moved the plan was to remodel our new house and create a hobby space for me. The remodel is not going as well as planned and so I won't have a space until late fall or early winter of 2022. I can fiddle a bit as long as it only involves a sprue cutter, Xacto knife, glue and sanding sticks.
I have trouble completing my builds, but have found if I build around a theme I get more kits finished. This is the second of my AMT Double Dragster posts. I loved the kit as a kid and have enjoyed it just as much now. There are some issues with it. The tubing is too large to my eye, the Vertex magneto has the wires out of the side instead of the front (or back as the case may be) and the tires in some of the variants aren't really correct for the period, but all in all it captures that late 50s, early 60s period really well. Here's Double Dragster - Blue rail.
The chassis is really short and was out of fashion early in the 60s. So I took two chassis and joined them to make a stretched rail. In hindsight I shouldn't have gone so long, but what's done is done. I used most of the drag link on another version so I used aluminum tubing to span the distance. I don't know if at a standard length the engine in the side by side is in the path of the drag link, but it certainly was in my stretched version. I went down and under. I did it by eye and dropped it much to low but it is what it is. I discovered after the fact that on side by side twins they would run the steering down between the engines. That would have been better albeit more work. The wheels and tires have been swapped out. The fronts from some dragster kit and the rears are AMT parts pack pie crusts with Herb Deeks Halibrands with knock-offs.
The plug wires are wire wrap wire and the fuel lines are beading wire.
Like my Orange build I glued the body halves together and cut out the bottom and made a pan with it. It's more like what was done in the day.
I turned the fuel tank inline and replaced all of the mounting with Evergreen to get a more scale layout. The paint is a transparent blue over a silver base, but it didn't turn out very transparent. I should have air-brushed it instead of using a rattle can to better control the layers.
Thanks for looking.
I have trouble completing my builds, but have found if I build around a theme I get more kits finished. This is the second of my AMT Double Dragster posts. I loved the kit as a kid and have enjoyed it just as much now. There are some issues with it. The tubing is too large to my eye, the Vertex magneto has the wires out of the side instead of the front (or back as the case may be) and the tires in some of the variants aren't really correct for the period, but all in all it captures that late 50s, early 60s period really well. Here's Double Dragster - Blue rail.
The chassis is really short and was out of fashion early in the 60s. So I took two chassis and joined them to make a stretched rail. In hindsight I shouldn't have gone so long, but what's done is done. I used most of the drag link on another version so I used aluminum tubing to span the distance. I don't know if at a standard length the engine in the side by side is in the path of the drag link, but it certainly was in my stretched version. I went down and under. I did it by eye and dropped it much to low but it is what it is. I discovered after the fact that on side by side twins they would run the steering down between the engines. That would have been better albeit more work. The wheels and tires have been swapped out. The fronts from some dragster kit and the rears are AMT parts pack pie crusts with Herb Deeks Halibrands with knock-offs.
The plug wires are wire wrap wire and the fuel lines are beading wire.
Like my Orange build I glued the body halves together and cut out the bottom and made a pan with it. It's more like what was done in the day.
I turned the fuel tank inline and replaced all of the mounting with Evergreen to get a more scale layout. The paint is a transparent blue over a silver base, but it didn't turn out very transparent. I should have air-brushed it instead of using a rattle can to better control the layers.
Thanks for looking.